HOW Promotion & Marketing Design Awards

HOW’s longest-running design competition, the HOW Promotion & Marketing Design Awards, is the only award that specifically recognizes outstanding promotion design work! Whether it’s a self-promo to showcase a design firm’s capabilities, a project that touts a client’s goods, an announcement for a major life event, or a student designer’s résumé or design portfolio, if it’s your finest promotional design work, we want to see it. And you deserve some hard-earned recognition.

ILLUSTRATOR PROMOTIONS: created for illustrators (not just work that includes illustration)

PHOTOGRAPHER PROMOTIONS: created for photographers (not just work that includes photography)

STUDENT PROMOTIONS: created while you were in school (whether you’ve graduated or not)

MISCELLANEOUS PROMOTIONS: created for purpose other than those above

How to Enter

Entries may be entered online.

You may submit up to 10 files per entry (10 MB per file). File formats for digital images include: .jpg and .jpeg only (do not submit .tif, .png, .pdf or .gif files) in RGB color mode no smaller than 3 inches for the shortest dimension at 300 dpi. Larger dimensions are preferred for detail and cropping. If the entry is a website, please include screen captures or still images based on the size and file format specifications above for production in the magazine.If the entry is a video, file formats include: .mov; .avi; .mp4; .wma. Please include screen captures or still images based on the size and file format specifications above for production in the magazine.

Credit all persons involved in the creation of the piece. HOW isn’t responsible for incorrect, illegible or incomplete credit information.

Release date of submission must fall between March 11, 2016 and this competition’s final deadline.

Describe the objective and results of your entry in 100 words or less and include the description on the entry form.

We accept all major credit cards or you may pay with a check or money order. Make checks payable (in U.S. funds) to F+W Media, Inc. and send to the address below. Entries received without payment will be disqualified. Entry fees are nonrefundable. One check may be used to cover multiple entries. -See Pricing and Deadlines